Assignments

Assignment Thirteen: Let’s Pour a Beer

Assignment Thirteen: Let’s Pour a Beer

Let’s Pour a Beer! Specifics: Pour Shots are Fun. We are going to pour a beer and catch the ‘head’ coming up. For those who do not drink or enjoy beer, how about a Ginger Ale! Bubbly Wine or Sparkling Ciders are fine. Seven Up is fine as is Sprite… look, you get it – right? Keep in mind that in order to see through the liquid, backlight is what we want to use. In...

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Assignment Twelve: Simple One Light Portrait for an Arts Magazine

Assignment Twelve: Simple One Light Portrait for an Arts Magazine

Specifics: This is a simple one light portrait of an artist. You can of course use someone other than a real artist, but they should “represent” an artist. Background should be plain. Not a location shoot, but of course it can be done anywhere. (No, my ultra cropped photo that accompanies this assignment is NOT what we are looking for.) Subject should be holding something that...

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Assignment Eleven: Up Close and Personal

Assignment Eleven: Up Close and Personal

Let’s get close up and personal with your subject. Use details and close focus to show us something about your subject we may not be aware of from normal viewing distance. Coming in close for a shot is more than simply focusing a macro lens. It is isolation on many levels. 1. We are isolating the subject with focus. Most Macro shots have very little depth of field, so subjects are sharp and...

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Assignment Ten: Power

Assignment Ten: Power

Specifics: This is a concept shoot. NO specifics on format or size. If you want to shoot it and crop it square – cool. I f you want to make a very wide horizontal panorama, cool. Just tell us why the crop was chosen. If you shoot it to format, you can say: “shot to format…” and that is fine. If it is square, tell us why you did it. Illustrate...

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Assignment Nine: CD Cover/Back

Assignment Nine: CD Cover/Back

Assignment Nine: CD Cover Assignment: Joni Mitchell Re-release of “Amelia” (fictitious assignment) CD Cover Assignment: A new artist us doing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia” (fictitious assignment) Video Critique of this Assignment Here Audio Critique made before the show is here: Free MP3 download: amelia-crit.mp3 Two images: Both square for use on CD cover....

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Assignment Eight: Recipe and Ingredients for a Regional Magazine

Assignment Eight: Recipe and Ingredients for a Regional Magazine

Photo by John Kleb. Shoot the ingredients for a salad (your recipe) on a white background. Keep the shot very tightly framed. We need a little white space at the foreground for some type. Regional magazine wants a one page article shot for their upcoming issue. Specifics: magazine is 8×10.5″ tall full bleed image, with recipe text over image prefer to put text on the bottom area of...

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